BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER - Red Bull Racing And Marvel Studios Team Up For Awesome Sergio Perez Helmet

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER - Red Bull Racing And Marvel Studios Team Up For Awesome Sergio Perez Helmet BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER - Red Bull Racing And Marvel Studios Team Up For Awesome Sergio Perez Helmet

Marvel Studios and Red Bull Racing have teamed up to create an epic new helmet for Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez that ties into the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever this weekend. Check it out...

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By JoshWilding - Nov 08, 2022 07:11 AM EST

It's not often the worlds of comic books and sports intersect...unless Marvel Studios is dropping a new trailer during a Monday Night Football game or the Super Bowl, of course. 

However, with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever set to arrive in theaters this Friday, Disney has teamed up with Red Bull Racing to create a seriously cool helmet for Formula 1 driver, Sergio Perez. The Brazilian Grand Prix is also taking place this weekend, so that clearly presented a good opportunity for Marvel Studios to hype the movie both in South America and across the globe. 

The Black Panther sequel also features a South American lead in Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta. He plays Namor the Submariner in this movie, and looks set to be a huge new addition to the MCU. 

Perez is also Mexican, but is flying the flag for Black Panther on this helmet. His team, Red Bull, has already won the F1 Constructor's World Championship, while his teammate Max Verstappen is the 2022 Driver's World Champion. Perez, however, is battling for second place, with 280 points to Charles Leclerc's 275 points and George Russell's 231 points.

Take a closer look at this very cool Black Panther: Wakanda Forever-inspired helmet below.
 


In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira) and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba) fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death.

As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o) and Everett Ross (Martin Freeman) and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda. Introducing Tenoch Huerta as Namor, king of Talokan, the film also stars Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena and Alex Livinalli. 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, directed by Ryan Coogler, opens in theaters on November 11.

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TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/8/2022, 7:32 AM
I feel like Marvel very intentionally tried to make the first Black Panther be seen as a cultural movement as a strategic marketing campaign despite it being a very average at best comic book movie and a standard film when compared to the greatest cinema of all time,, with some very good performances and music and the most manipulative marketing campaign of modern times.

And they continue to try to milk this very manufactured "cultural significance" and now with Wakanda Forever tiptoe the very uncomfortable and necessary territory of paying respect to Chadwick while promoting their for profit superhero film.

They are reeeeeeally good at dressing all this self important marketing as some higher calling or society defining thing of significance.... when both are just superhero movies... just like Captain America and Shang Chi and Black Widow... and they aren't ground breaking cinema.

I'm sorry. I love Chad as much as anyone but I'm tired of pretending Black Panther was a movement or else be labeled racist lol dude, Chad wasn't the first Black superhero by far, Africa has been depicted on screen throughout the history of cinema in MUCH more meaningful ways that aren't recognized, it's literally MARVEL manipulating social hostilities and weaponizing the anxiety of being ostracized via committee for daring to say a film was... just... ok.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 11/8/2022, 7:40 AM
@TheVandalore - if you think Black Panther wasn't a very meaningful movement that had cultural and societal relevance, you should probably go talk to some black people who felt like it was. Seems you would find it educational. Your individual thoughts on how "good/average/bad" a movie is is irrelevant, but the resonance and personal enrichment this movie had amongst certain people and communities is both incalculable and significant
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/8/2022, 7:47 AM
@TheVandalore - I grew up with Shaft and Steel and Catwoman and Meteor Man and Spawn and Blank Man and Handcock and an entire trilogy of Blade films... so trying to get me to believe Black Panther is the first Black superhero movie ain't tricking me.

A simple Google search for "films set in Africa" will show you its almost laughable to say anything in Black Panther holds REAL WORLD SIGNIFICANCE compared to largely ignored films which are depths more profound and important to culture than pretending about Wakanda.

I'm sorry... Black Panther is just a comic book movie. And average at best. Chadwick was phenomenon as T'Challa as he was in all his performances..... but can we stop letting Disney and Marvel force us to go along with this very deliberate "cultural phenomenon" baiting.
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/8/2022, 7:51 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - oh I saw the marketing package Marvel put together and watched the WAKANDA FOREVER special presentation on HULU which made its case as best it could..... and it's still very manufactured. And a lot if people enjoy riding the hype.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 11/8/2022, 7:56 AM
@TheVandalore - Every movie has marketing and "hype", I'm talking about actual human beings who watched the actual movie and felt actual things because of it. You should seek out or read up on those people instead of sitting here waiting to be called racist because you have beliefs about something you clearly don't understand. This is a sequel, and it's marketing is tailored based on the reception to it's predecessor. You should probably investigate that reception a bit more if you want to understand the reality of the topic you're trying to engage with. This of course requires engaging with people rather than writing posts like this on the internet
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/8/2022, 7:59 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - I think you are confusing popularity for cultural movement. How do you define Cultural movement, because by all accounts Black Panther changed nothing and pioneer nothing. It wasn't the first or the best. It was popular, yes. Celebrities doing "Wakanda Forever" is as culturally significant as Star Wars Prequel hype people interviewing Yoda and Chewbacca. Star Wars is more a case for a cultural movement because it actually impacted the history of film Forever in how these tentpole franchise films can become behemoths and take over the entire pop culture zeitgeist for decades to come... but I'd still argue that's just popularity and not a cultural movement.

So what do you feel is a cultural movement and what about Black Panthers fan base makes you think it's popularity transcended into "cultural movement". How was it a movement at all, rather than very popular for a bit?
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/8/2022, 8:01 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - by your definition was Schindlers List a cultural movement for Jewish people because it was an award winning massively popular film at the time.... or was it just a profoundly important film lacking MARVELS masterful marketing?
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/8/2022, 8:04 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - and I appreciate you waiting till the last possible moment to slight me and try to attack me rather than stay on topic......meaning I've won.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 11/8/2022, 8:08 AM
@TheVandalore -

"How do you define Cultural movement, because by all accounts Black Panther changed nothing and pioneer nothing."

This is pretty flat out inherently wrong on multiple levels. First, I never said Black Panther was a cultural movement, I said it had cultural and societal relevance, which are very different things. Second, you don't have "all accounts" of what Black Panther did or didn't pioneer or change. Third, it absolutely was the first film to acheive it's budget and box office gross with a predominantly black cast, and it's success has led to an accelerated influx of POC led films and projects in the film industry (and Marvel themselves noted that it changed their approach to making films in a variety of ways).

But that's besides the point. As I said, you should actually go and talk to some people who did feel Black Panther had cultural and societal relevance, and felt it was "more than a movie" and ask them why. Have a human conversation with actual people in the real world about this and see if improves your understanding of the topic, because you have a strangely narrow and limited view of it right now
TheVandalore
TheVandalore - 11/8/2022, 8:13 AM
@OmegaDaGrodd - your bias assumptions I don't have conversations with people I disagree with is inherently flawed because despite your attempts at character assaination with false statements about me, I'm attempting to have a conversation with you. And instead of talking to me respectfully and providing anything close to actual rebuttals aside from "go talk to real people you caveman". I do not have a strangely narrow and limited world view, I have a different idea than yours and you are to threatened or annoyed to stay on topic.

I don't think your opinions are wrong, I just disagree, sad you are unable to remain polite and engaging.
OmegaDaGrodd
OmegaDaGrodd - 11/8/2022, 8:22 AM
@TheVandalore -

"I'm attempting to have a conversation with you."

There's your problem: I'm not actually interested in having a conversation with you on a topic you don't really understand, which is why my comments are all centered towards encouraging you to find non-internet based means to educate yourself rather than trying to debate you on the topic at hand.

Only a fool attempts to speak for or against the existence of a "movement" (that would need to encompass thousands of people) based solely on their own observations and what they think to be "objective" analysis. You're never going to understand this topic until you go and talk to the people who lived and breathed the thing you seem to wrongly think Marvel are pretending existed
LongMayHeReign
LongMayHeReign - 11/8/2022, 9:11 AM
@TheVandalore - "I'm attempting to have a conversation with you. And instead of talking to me respectfully and providing anything close to actual rebuttals aside from "go talk to real people you caveman"."


Did I miss something or didn't he literally just explain to you the difference between "cultural movement" and "cultural relevance" as it pertains to the first Black Panther film? Yet instead you focused on him advising you to talk to people in real life about how the film impacted them on a cultural level, and somehow now you're a victim of character assassination?
LiteralSense
LiteralSense - 11/8/2022, 9:14 AM
@LongMayHeReign - People like @TheVandalore you can’t reason with. They just don’t care and honestly I don’t care for their opinions either.
ChimiFnChangas
ChimiFnChangas - 11/8/2022, 8:51 AM
The first thing that comes to mind when reading about sports on this site.
DUNCAN1
DUNCAN1 - 11/8/2022, 9:07 AM
Two straight out of the theater reactions I trust are giving me mixed feels this weekend when I plan to see it 2 times. &
LiteralSense
LiteralSense - 11/8/2022, 9:18 AM
@DUNCAN1 - I don’t trust them at all. They are part of the recast T’Challa movement. So to me, their opinions about the film is irrelevant. They already had that bias going in.

Plus the first said it was good anyway even though he didn’t get what he want.
HAUSMAN01
HAUSMAN01 - 11/8/2022, 1:31 PM
@LiteralSense -
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